Amabel

• Preferred Name: Amabel ^[1]
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: GZ1W-DKK
  
• Death: 1349 in Boughton, Northamptonshire, England at LATI: N2.2844 LONG: E0.9001
  
• Birth: in England
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  From British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp76-81#fnn45
  
  The Boughton family, who obtained the Manor of Boughton in the reign of Edward I, were already holders of land there, and their estate may have originated in the virgate held in 1086 of Countess Judith by Robert. The first of this family of whom any record remains was William, who was succeeded by a son Richard, whose son Alexander was a benefactor both to St. Andrew's Priory, Northampton, and to the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, Kingsthorpe. He died before 1211, leaving a widow Margaret and two sons, William who died without issue and Walter, who died before 1284. Walter was succeeded by his son John, who purchased Boughton manor from St. Wandrille Abbey, when their holding became absorbed in the manor; it is doubtful if it had acquired the legal status of a manor, although Walter is sometimes styled lord of Boughton.
  
  William the Conqueror bestowed most of the land in Boughton upon his niece, the Countess Judith, and the overlordship remained vested in the holders of the honor of Huntingdon of which the descent is traced under Yardley Hastings. One of the under-tenants of the countess in 1086 was the Norman abbey of St. Wandrille who held 3 hides less half a virgate, bestowed upon them by the countess; by the 12th century this estate had increased to 3 hides and 3 small virgates, probably by the addition of 3 virgates held of the countess at the Domesday Survey by 4 socmen. It was worth 110s. in 1207, and was appropriated by John for the time being with the lands of other Norman holders, but was regained by the abbey, whose abbot William de Nutricilla, in the reign of Edward I, conveyed it to John de Boughton, who already owned land in Boughton by inheritance. From John it passed to his son, another John; and to the latter's son Thomas, against whom and his mother Juliana, William, Abbot of St. Wandrille, brought an action in 1330 claiming that as the estate had belonged to the abbey by virtue of the Prebend of Uphaven, in the diocese of Salisbury, and that as the consent of the dean and chapter had not been obtained, the alienation of the manor by William de Nutricilla was not valid. The abbot, however, failed to prosecute and judgement was given for Thomas, who in the same year successfully claimed view of frankpledge in his manor of Boughton, on prescription; he was sheriff for Northants. in 1331, 1334, and 1343. In 1337 the abbey of St. Wandrille was absolved by the Pope from the penalty it had incurred by selling the Boughton estate without licence from the bishop, and the tenure of the Boughton family was thus rendered more secure. Three years afterwards, however, Sir Thomas de Boughton and Joan his wife sold the reversion of the manor to Henry Grene of Isham, junior, in whose family it remained for many years. Henry Grene was knighted in 1354 and in 1361 was appointed chief justice of the King's Bench, from which he was removed in 1365; he died in 1369 and was succeeded in his Boughton estates by Thomas, his son by his first wife; Drayton, which he had acquired from Sir John Drayton, brother of his second wife Catherine, being settled on Henry his son by her. Sir Thomas, who died in 1391, was succeeded by his son another Sir Thomas, Sheriff of Northants. in 1417, in which year he died. His widow Mary died in 1433, when their son, another Sir Thomas, came into possession of the whole manor. The manor passed from him to his son, grandson, and great-grandson, all of whom were called Thomas, but the sixth and last Thomas died in 1506, without male heirs, when his property passed to his two daughters Anne and Maud.

• m. ABT 1340

1. Thomas de Grene I of Grene's Norton, b. 1343 in Norton, Northamptonshire, England     d. 1391 in Grene’s Norton, Northamptonshire, England

1. Title: Calendar of Close Rolls of King Edward III for 1348
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